Canada’s global leadership, the ‘coalition of the willing,’ and Ukraine

It’s time to demonstrate to those deploying the ‘might makes right’ approach to geopolitics that the rule of international law can be supported by collective action of middle power democratic states.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in 2018. What we are witnessing is not a ‘peace process’ but a proxy activity conducted between two ‘strong men,’ both of whom are committed to a zero-sum approach to negotiations, write Senator Stanley Kutcher and Ksenia Zubriy.White House photograph courtesy of Shealah Craighead

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR STANLEY KUTCHER, KSENIA ZUBRIY

February 25, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech in January made manifest what was not being openly discussed: the United States may no longer be a reliable ally for democratic states upholding the international rule of law. This reality applies to the U.S. brokered “peace proc...

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